Blogs in January 1970

Mud, Muck and Dead Things 1st January 1970

Lucas Burton hates the countryside. To him it’s nothing but mud, muck and dead things. And he’s right. When he turns up at a deserted farm in the middle of nowhere hoping to conduct a business deal he stumbles...

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1977 (The Red Riding Quartet) 1st January 1970

Fiction set in Yorkshire. If you thought fiction couldn’t get darker than David Peace’s extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the ‘Red Riding Quartet’, is one long nightmare. Its heroes...

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Beneath the Shadows 1st January 1970

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the isolated North Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. However, a week later, Adam vanishes, leaving their baby daughter on the doorstep. The following year, Grace...

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The Girl in the Mask 1st January 1970

Sophia Williams has a duty to her father to behave in an appropriate way for a young lady in 18th century Bath, so that she can find a good quality husband. She is not one to do as she’s...

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The Space Between Things 1st January 1970

How far would you go to win the love of a woman? Arch, a wannabe poet living in a bohemian Birmingham suburb, likes to party and has no time for love or seriousness. Then he meets the mysterious Vee....

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